Nearly 55% of voters in Switzerland on Sunday rejected an initiative championed by the top right-wing party to cap the rich Alpine country’s population at 10 million, early results showed.
The populist Swiss People’s Party, which has the most seats in parliament, has stirred up and fostered anti-migration sentiment over the years, notably about an influx of workers from the neighboring European Union.
Some have dubbed the proposal a “Swiss Brexit” because it could jeopardize Switzerland’s deep ties to the European Union anchored by deals that foster economic growth, cultural ties and cross-border travel, among other things. Switzerland is not one of the EU’s 27 member states, but it is all but surrounded by four of them
This initiative was a conservative movement.
It would have been used as a cudgel to oppress immigrants or to target the out group.
And when they run out of immigrants: Rules is rules
Yeah, I understood that. But a hard limit on population is crazy. You would need to have some way of killing people for each person born. That’s disregarding the fact that people have a beneficial use. They can help in food, service, manufacturing, business to business stuff.
But taken to the extreme if some person in a suit just going around the country killing people for each person born…
I don’t know how many hospitals are in Switzerland or how big they are but it’s definitely more than 10 a day so imagine someone just driving around all day yelling at traffic and any delay because they need to report how many people they killed that week and praying it’s not a busy week in the maternity ward…
Or just denying citizenship or deporting. You know, other forms of state based violence
But how can that be sustainable? Ok sure you set up a limit of 5000 immigrants per year. Fine you deny everyone at the border over that limit.
How do you limit population? Either kill people or prevent them from having sex…logistics of both are pretty hard.
People have babies. That increases population.
Xenophobia and anti-immigrant policies are now present in almost every developed country.
Fucking xenophobes in Japan are not helping in that they’re bent on keeping racial purity and “peace and order”, anxious to kick out the Kurds, but at the cost of their falling population, growing numbers of shut-ins, and insane costs of living.
Are there Kurds in Japan? That’s news to me.
Unfortunately, xenophobia is rising in many parts of the world, even in countries with negligible number of immigrants like Japan. I’m even surprised that in Chile, anti-migrant is a sticking point on their recent elections, even though they barely have any immigrants and many Chileans are even leaving.
I am blaming social media for amplifying polarisation. The elites are doing what they can to divide the population while they steal from our pockets because we’re too distracted.